History of Europe: From the Commencement of the French Revolution in M.DCC.LXXXIX. to the Restoration of the Bourbons in M.DCCC.XV.William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London., 1843 |
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... Losses on both sides - Aspect of the field of battle on the following day - Inactivity and losses of the French after the battle - Napoleon calls in all his reinforcements and proposes peace to Prussia - Which is refused by that power ...
... Losses on both sides - Aspect of the field of battle on the following day - Inactivity and losses of the French after the battle - Napoleon calls in all his reinforcements and proposes peace to Prussia - Which is refused by that power ...
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... loss how to act , ski , ii . 335 . and the question was warmly debated by the Coun- 336 , 338 . cil assembled at his headquarters.1 1 328. Ogin- ments in the resto- On the one hand , it was urged by the friends of Poland , " that the ...
... loss how to act , ski , ii . 335 . and the question was warmly debated by the Coun- 336 , 338 . cil assembled at his headquarters.1 1 328. Ogin- ments in the resto- On the one hand , it was urged by the friends of Poland , " that the ...
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... loss of about a thousand men . Kamenskoi , finding the barrier which covered the front of his position forced , gave orders for concen- trating his forces towards Poltusk ; and the Allies accordingly fell back at all points . They were ...
... loss of about a thousand men . Kamenskoi , finding the barrier which covered the front of his position forced , gave orders for concen- trating his forces towards Poltusk ; and the Allies accordingly fell back at all points . They were ...
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... loss , and the ground was already strewed with dead bodies when the line was so far formed as to enable a general charge to take place . It was attended , however , with very little success ; XLIV . CHAP . the soil , cut up by HISTORY ...
... loss , and the ground was already strewed with dead bodies when the line was so far formed as to enable a general charge to take place . It was attended , however , with very little success ; XLIV . CHAP . the soil , cut up by HISTORY ...
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... loss of above four thousand iRapp , 127 . men , while they had not to lament the destruction of 128. Dum . more than half the number , ' in consequence chiefly of 185 . The 47th Bulletin admits a loss of 800 killed and 2000 wounded on ...
... loss of above four thousand iRapp , 127 . men , while they had not to lament the destruction of 128. Dum . more than half the number , ' in consequence chiefly of 185 . The 47th Bulletin admits a loss of 800 killed and 2000 wounded on ...
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allies arms arrived artillery attack Augereau Austerlitz bank battalions battle of Eylau Benningsen Berlin Decree Bernadotte Bign blockade British Buxhowden campaign cavalry CHAP colonies combat command commenced contest corps Cossacks danger Dantzic Davoust decree divisions Doctoroff effect empire enemy engaged England English Europe Eylau favour field of battle force fortresses France French Emperor front frontier Golymin Government Grand Army horse hostilities hundred Imperial Guard important infantry Kamenskoi Konigsberg Lannes Lestocq Lord loss Marshal Marshal Ney's measure ment military Moldavia Murat Napoleon Narew nation negroes numbers orders Parl Passarge period pieces of cannon Poland Polish Prince Pultusk rear retreat Russian army Russian right sian side Silesia slave trade soldiers Soult squadrons St Petersburg success thousand strong Tilsit tion town treaty treaty of Tilsit troops Turkish victory Vistula Warsaw whole Wilson winter XLIV XLVI XLVII xvii xviii
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Seite 135 - Though bill-men ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spear-men still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight ; Linked in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well ; Till utter darkness closed her wing O'er their thin host and wounded King.
Seite 674 - It is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me;" — and in that manner, so becoming to a soldier, Moore was borne from the fight.
Seite 135 - Front, flank, and rear, the squadrons sweep To break the Scottish circle deep That fought around their king. But yet, though thick the shafts as snow, Though charging knights like whirlwinds go, Though billmen ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring; The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood The instant that he fell.
Seite 675 - I hope the people of England will be satisfied!" "I hope my country will do me justice!
Seite 675 - Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame, fresh and gory ; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone — But we left him alone with his glory ! SONG.
Seite 256 - Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.
Seite 215 - If ever the free institutions of America are destroyed, that event may be attributed to the unlimited authority of the majority, which may at some future time urge the minorities to desperation, and oblige them to have recourse to physical force. Anarchy will then be the result, but it will have been brought about by despotism.
Seite 660 - SOUTHBY, i. 499. In the midst of this disgraceful scene of unbridled license and military devastation, there is one trait of heroic presence of mind, which in some degree redeems the character of the British soldier. Several thousand infantry slept in the long galleries of an immense convent built round a square ; the...
Seite 570 - All that I can say upon that subject is, that whether I am to command the army or not, or am to quit it, I shall do my best to insure its success; and you may depend upon it that I shall not hurry the operations, or commence them one moment sooner than they ought to be commenced, in order that I may acquire the credit of the success.
Seite 181 - France, prohibiting all trade in any articles the produce or manufacture of his majesty's dominions ; and the merchants of those countries have given countenance and effect to those prohibitions, by accepting from persons styling themselves commercial agents of the enemy, resident at neutral ports, certain...